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D. H. MURPHY.

TOWEL HOLDER. No 831,728. Patented Dec. 1, 1885.

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*DANIEL H. MURPHY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOB, BY DIRECT ANDMESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO F. WILLSON ROGERS AND JOEL P. HAFF, BOTH OF SAMEPLACE.

TOWEL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,728, dated December1, 1885.

Application filed November 17, 1883. Serial No. 1l2,l16. (No model.)

To aw whom it may concern: end of the V-shaped slot C; or the whole mayBe it known that I, DANIEL H. MURPHY, a be cast in iron or othermaterial all atone time; 3 5

citizen of the United States, residing in Hartor the loops B and the\I-shaped slots can ford,in the countyofHartford and State ofConbe castin iron or other material, the screwnecticut, have invented a new anduseful Toweye Aslipped on, and the ball D then cast on,

el-Holder, of which the following is a specifiand then tumbled untilbright.

cation. I am aware that devices of wrought-iron 0 My invention relatesto improvements in designed for clothes-pins and other purposestowel-holdersin which the V-shaped slot operhave been contrived whereina loop having IO ates in conjunction with the loop-ball and convergingportions terminating in a graviscrew-eye; and the objects of myimprovetating ball have been used before my invenments are, first, toprovide a support from tion; hence I broadly disclaim such devices.

which to suspend the loop; second, to afi'ord My invention is especiallydesigned for proper facilities for adjusting the towel, and,towel-holders; and from the above description,

15 third, to afford a secure holder for the towel. it will be observedthat the new device is pro I attain these objects by the mechanismillusvided with a gimlet-pointed or self-entering trated in theaccompanying drawing, in which screw. It is therefore a completeattaching the figure is a perspective view of the entire towetholder,the loop affording a handletowel-holder. lever for inserting the screwinto wood. 20 Similarletters refer to similarparts throngh- What I claimas new is out the view. 1; The improved article of manufacture Thescrew-eye A forms the support, and in consisting of a loop havingconverging side its eye hangs the loop B, to which is connected arms,the ends of which are fixed to a gravithe V-shaped slot 0, the ends ofwhich are tating ball, in combination with an attached 2 5 held togetherby the ball D. \Vhile the loop eyebolt, substantially as described.

B is shown in the view of a circular shape, it 2. As an improvedmanufacture, the loop is evident that it is not necessary to confine B,the converging portions 0, forming a V- it to that precise shape toenable it to answer shaped groove, and a weight, D, all cast entire,

the purpose of the present invention. substantially as set forth.

30 The towel-holder can be made by forming a DANIEL H. MURPHY.

piece of wire into the loop B and the V-shaped W'itnesses: slot C, afterwhich the eye-screw A can be GEORGE G. SILL,

slipped on the loop 13 and the ball cast on the PORTER XVHITON.

